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Health And Safety ( H & S

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Introduction
Health and safety (H&S) has been defined as
“regulations and procedures intended to prevent accident or injury in workplaces or public environments” (Oxford Dictionary, 2016).
Using this definition, the purpose of this study is to use the existing literature to investigate what the H&S considerations are sporting events in order to understand the associated managerial problems. Due to H&S having such a broad scope covering many subjects and issues, this study addresses the H&S considerations at sporting events from a risk management perspective, focusing heavily on the legislation and tools in place to deal with the associated H&S at sporting events.

The incentive for this study is to develop a sound understanding of what H&S is and how it is implemented into sporting events. The bulk of this research focuses on crowds, gaps in research and the methods used to control crowds at sporting events. Furthermore, the differences between H&S according to indoor versus outdoor sporting events will be investigated.

This study focuses on sporting events, both indoor and outdoor are included. The topic of H&S is complex with many areas to be explored, as such, the use of literature in this study largely focuses on major sporting events. However, a range of other event types is incorporated to fully investigate the H&S safety considerations at sporting events. No water based, or winter sporting events have been included, nor have events that integrate animals.
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